Members of the East Los Angeles College Speech team presented award-winning performances using comedy, poetry, rhetoric, drama and wit to engage the audience into their individual topics on Monday and Tuesday.

Among the topics highlighted were Donald Trump’s Wall, the lack of diversity in the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics program, being cheated on in a relationship, American military intervention in Ukraine, and being a stay-at-home father.

Student Kaitlyn Gonzalez used poetry as a vehicle to convey messages about Trump’s rhetoric and plans to build a wall.

She used imagery and symbolism in her performance which included some of the president’s famous Tweets and examples of other nations that have built walls.

“A nation without borders is not a nation,” Trump said on Twitter in July 2015.

Gonzalez used many of Trump’s quotes and Tweets against him and added a dramatic essence to the selection.

Using speech she painted a picture of a cold 55-foot concrete wall separating two nations using examples of the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China. Gonzalez mentioned the separation of East and West.

She gave various examples of why Trump’s plan for a wall would fail and become a bigger problem.

Gonzalez said that although she is not undocumented, she still fears for her friends and family that do not have legal status.

Undocumented people came to this country to be, “undervalued, separated and overworked,” Gonzalez said.